Speech, Media and Ethics: The Limits of Free Expression: Critical Studies on Freedom of Expression, Freedom of the Press and the Public's Right to Know / Edition 2

by R. Cohen-Almagor

Overview

Speech, Media, and Ethics: The Limits of Free Expression is an interdisciplinary work that employs ethics, liberal philosophy, and legal and media studies to outline the boundaries to freedom of expression and freedom of the press, defined broadly to include the right to demonstrate and to picket, the right to compete in elections, and the right to communicate views via the written and electronic media. Moral principles are applied to analyze practical questions that deal with free expression and its limits.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312236076
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	04/18/2001
Edition description:	2001
Pages:	217
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

RAPHAEL COHEN-ALMAGOR Raphael Cohen-Almagor received his doctorate in political theory from Oxford University (1991). Former member of the Israel Press Council (1997-2000). In 1999-2000 he was awarded the Fulbright-Yitzhak Rabin Award and was a Visiting Professor at UCLA School of Law and Department of Communication. He was Chairperson of Library and Information Studies (200-2003) and is Associate Professor at the Department of

Communication, University of Haifa, where he heads the Center for Democratic Studies. In 2003-2004 he was a Senior Fellow and visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University. Raphael is the author of Middle Eastern Shores (poetry, Hebrew, 1993), The Boundaries of Liberty and Tolerance (1994), The Right to Die with Dignity (2001) and Euthanasia in the Netherlands (2004), and editor of several books, among them Liberal Democracy and the Limits of Tolerance: Essays in Honor and Memory of Yitzhak Rabin (2000), Challenges to Democracy: Essays in Honour and Memory of Isaiah Berlin (2000), Medical Ethics at the Dawn of the 21st Century (2000), and Moral Dilemmas in Medicine (Hebrew, 2002). He is currently completing a book titled The Scope of Tolerance as well as his second poetry book, Travels.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Geoffrey Marshall
• Introduction
• Part I: Freedom of Expression
• Harm Principle, Offense Principle, and Hate Speech
• The Right to Demonstrate v. the Right to Privacy: Picketing Private Homes of Public Officials
• The Right to Participate in Elections: Judicial and Practical Considerations
• Part II: Media Ethics, Freedom and Responsibilities
• Objective Reporting in the Media: Phantom Rather than Pancea
• Ethical Boundaries of Media Coverage
• Media Coverage of Suicide: Comparative Analysis
• The Work of the Press Councils in Great Britain, Canada, and Israel: A Comparative Approach
• Appendix: Perceptions of Media Coverage among the Israeli-Jewish Public: A Reflection of Existing Social Cleavages? (with Itzhak Yanovitzky)

Editorial Reviews

Cohen-Almagor (communication, U. of Haifa) incorporates ethics, liberal philosophy, and legal and media studies in this examination of tolerance and the problems of maintaining a free press given the forces that threaten the institutions of contemporary society. His analysis of freedom of expression considers the right to demonstrate; the right to picket the homes of public officials; and the right to compete in elections. An examination of freedom of the press looks at objective reporting in the media; ethical boundaries of media coverage; the concept of the public's right to know and its ethical constraints; and a comparison of the work of the press councils of Great Britain, Canada, and Israel. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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